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Let’s talk about emoji

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Kim Kardashian created Kimoji. Giphy just launched a GIF keyboard. Starbucks has its own branded emoji. Bitmoji personalized emoji and was acquired by Snapchat. Soon, every company, celebrity, and perhaps regular human, will get their own custom keyboards. Do emoji degrade our language? Are brands corroding communication? Are we doomed to brandspeak? Jake and Ashley discuss live, on-air, in real time, on Facebook.

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